DAVIDSON, DAVID ARTHUR

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DAVIDSON, DAVID ARTHUR

 

Name: David Arthur Davison

Rank/Branch: US Army Special Forces

Unit: MACV-SOG CC North; 5th Special Forces Group

Date of Birth: 08 March 1947 (Washington DC)

Home City of Record: East Riverside MD

Date of Loss: 5 October 1970

Country of Loss: Laos

Loss Coordinates: 161126N 1070527E (YC227912)

Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered

Category: 2

Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground

Refno: 1663

Other Personnel in Incident: Fred A. Gassman (missing)

 

Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S.

Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families,

published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998.

 

REMARKS:

 

SYNOPSIS: In Vietnam, SSgt. David A. Davidson was assigned to Command and

Control North, MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and

Observation Group). MACV-SOG was a joint service high command

unconventional warfare task force engaged in highly classified operations

throughout Southeast Asia. The 5th Special Forces channelled personnel into

MACV-SOG (although it was not a Special Forces group) through Special

Operations Augmentation (SOA), which provided their "cover" while under

secret orders to MACV-SOG. The teams performed deep penetration missions of

strategic reconnaissance and interdiction which were called, depending on

the time frame, "Shining Brass" or "Prairie Fire" missions.

 

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